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Philipp Berens @philipp.hertie.ai · 04/08/2025

We did just that a few times - successfully sometimes, unsuccessfully some other times

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ML for Science @ml4science.bsky.social · 16/07/2025

Together with #AIMS, the African Institute for Mathematical Sciences, we have an exciting position to fill: The AIMS - Tübingen Junior Research Chair in Machine Learning for Science! 1/2

Formulas and numbers from the field of machine learning written in white chalk on a blackboard

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Philipp Berens @philipp.hertie.ai · 10/07/2025

how do you provide evidence you are in the top 5-10% of your field?

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Philipp Berens @philipp.hertie.ai · 05/07/2025

You were forced to review with >4 papers - with rejection of all of you didn’t comply. But again, the tone was rough.

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Philipp Berens @philipp.hertie.ai · 05/07/2025

bsky.app/profile/phil... I keep getting mails of my co-authors asking me what I did - on the other hand, the ACs response was kind. I was flagged automatically apparently… harsh for public shaming

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Philipp Berens @philipp.hertie.ai · 04/07/2025

And don't get me wrong: I think it is good that they are trying to improve review quality.

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Philipp Berens @philipp.hertie.ai · 04/07/2025

And they literally send it to ALL MY COAUTHORS, telling them I submitted an irresponsible review. I mean...

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Philipp Berens @philipp.hertie.ai · 04/07/2025

I was flagged as "irresponsible" reviewer at NeurIPS for a paper providing no algorithm, no theory, no data, no analysis... it is simply an opinionated, colloquial review. I said as much. Instead of looking at it, the AC forced me to add to my review, threatening to reject papers of my co-authors.

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Philipp Berens @philipp.hertie.ai · 03/07/2025

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Bethge Lab @bethgelab.bsky.social · 03/07/2025

🧠🤖 We’re hiring a Postdoc in NeuroAI! Join CRC1233 "Robust Vision" (Uni Tübingen) to build benchmarks & evaluation methods for vision models, bridging brain & AI. Work with top faculty & shape vision research. Apply: tinyurl.com/3jtb4an6 #NeuroAI #Jobs

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Postdoctoral Researcher (m/f/d, E13 TV-L, 100%)

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Philipp Berens @philipp.hertie.ai · 02/07/2025

Until Trump outlaws the practice of eating vegan or vegetarian

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Philipp Berens @philipp.hertie.ai · 01/07/2025

The problem is that you will only vote again in 3.5 years - if you vote again

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ML for Science @ml4science.bsky.social · 30/06/2025

On our blog: Science is moving fast. How do we keep up? #ScholarInbox, developed by the Autonomous Vision Group led by @andreasgeiger.bsky.social, helps researchers stay ahead - by making the discovery of #openaccess papers smarter and more personal: www.machinelearningforscience.de/en/scholar-i...

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Scholar Inbox: Daily Research Recommendations just for You

Science is moving fast. How can we keep up? Scholar Inbox helps researchers stay ahead by making the discovery of open access papers more personal.

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Philipp Berens @philipp.hertie.ai · 28/06/2025

The colleagues from the new excellence cluster TERRA @unituebingen.bsky.social arriving after 100k on the 9th place!

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Philipp Berens @philipp.hertie.ai · 22/06/2025

Oh it is actually very nice, you can just prompt it to use Newspeak

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Philipp Berens @philipp.hertie.ai · 06/06/2025

Yeah, that’s an issue that you cannot really rely on it. But then this is true for so many things with DB. At a Kopfbahnhof like Frankfurt or Leipzig (?) you may be able to grab something from the station

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Philipp Berens @philipp.hertie.ai · 06/06/2025

Really? I like the vegan pasta and curry options!

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RHET AI Center @rhetai.bsky.social · 06/06/2025

🎤 An Impression from last nights #ScienceSlam, organized by the #Tübingen AI PhD and Postdoc Assembly (TAPPA) @Kupferbau @unituebingen.bsky.social The audience got a glimpse into AI-related research ranging from self-driving cars to deep learning, computational neuroscience, and probability theory.

A lecture hall full of students. The students are applauding. At the front of the lecture hall you can see eight people standing in front - two are wearing lab coats, six are in plain clothes.

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ML for Science @ml4science.bsky.social · 04/06/2025

Don't miss the #scienceslam of our PhDs and postdocs happening in #Tübingen tomorrow, Thursday, June 5, at 7 pm! And bring your friends who do not work on #AI themselves - the talks will be understandable for everyone.

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Philipp Berens @philipp.hertie.ai · 31/05/2025

Depending on your perspective 80y is a long time

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Philipp Berens @philipp.hertie.ai · 31/05/2025

Just because you criticize neoliberalism you are not automatically Marxist

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Philipp Berens @philipp.hertie.ai · 31/05/2025

80y later or so…. Up to the late 1920ies, Germany was the go to nation worldwide for maths, philosophy & even biologists published in Zeitschrift f Naturforschung… up until very recently a German academic career needed at least 2y in the US

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Mario Krenn @mariokrenn.bsky.social · 28/05/2025

We have several open, fully-funded PhD and Postdoc positions at my group, now at the University of Tübingen. Please #RT and share with potential candidates! Generally: AI for scientific discoveries in physics 🔥. mariokrenn.wordpress.com/wp-content/u...

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Philipp Berens @philipp.hertie.ai · 28/05/2025

Now you are laughing, but who knows.

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Philipp Berens @philipp.hertie.ai · 28/05/2025

For students in my kids' generation, I don't see how going on an exchange to the US holds much appeal. We need to be vigilant to similar tendencies in Germany and Europe, and stop the far-right from gaining further ground.

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Philipp Berens @philipp.hertie.ai · 28/05/2025

Now, the US government is halting student visa scheduling, increases social media surveillance, and patriotism has turned into cheap, blatent nationalism and facism following a great leader or manipulating him for ones own gain.

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Philipp Berens @philipp.hertie.ai · 28/05/2025

When I went to the US in 1998 as a high school student, the "land of the free" offered remarkable new perspectives on my home country Germany. As a liberal-left German, the flags, the pledge of allegiance and patriotism were strange, yet also fascinating in a weird way.

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Philipp Berens @philipp.hertie.ai · 26/05/2025

There should be a categorical imperative for bikes: Treat your bike like you would want to be treated by it

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Philipp Berens @philipp.hertie.ai · 24/05/2025

Can you send me an email? We just got an extension to uni-tuebingen.de/forschung/fo...

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ML for Science @ml4science.bsky.social · 22/05/2025

We're super happy: Our Cluster of Excellence will continue to receive funding from the German Research Foundation @dfg.de ! Here’s to 7 more years of exciting research at the intersection of #machinelearning and science! Find out more: uni-tuebingen.de/en/research/... #ExcellenceStrategy

The members of the Cluster of Excellence "Machine Learning: New Perspectives for Science" raise their glasses and celebrate securing another funding period.

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Philipp Berens @philipp.hertie.ai · 23/05/2025

We are incredible happy to be able to continue our work of developing new #AI4science across a wide range of disciplines with incredible colleagues in #physics, #neuroscience, #cogsci, #geoscience, #linguistics, #economics, #medicine, #philosophy, #law and #anthropology! @unituebingen.bsky.social

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Philipp Berens @philipp.hertie.ai · 23/05/2025

Put Tübingen on the list as well (close by American standard to Heidelberg) and a nice Uni

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Philipp Berens @philipp.hertie.ai · 22/05/2025

We all need to watch carefully what is happening in the US and what could happen if our own fascists come into power (again)

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Philipp Berens @philipp.hertie.ai · 22/05/2025

This is where @hertie-ai.bsky.social will be located in three years or so!

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Philipp Berens @philipp.hertie.ai · 22/05/2025

PS. @plos.org #DigitalHealth is a great journal for this kind of work run by a community of dedicated domain experts with diverse backgrounds!

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Philipp Berens @philipp.hertie.ai · 22/05/2025

Joint work with PhD students Indu Ilanchezian & Valentin Boreiko, as well as Ziwei Huang @msayhan.bsky.social @lisakoch.bsky.social Matthias Hein and Laura Kühlewein!

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Philipp Berens @philipp.hertie.ai · 22/05/2025

Importantly, we do not simply compute quality metrics, but perform a highly sensitive three-way odd-one-out study to assess the realism - even for ophthalmologists, it is hard to figure out, which images have been generated by our algorithm!

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Philipp Berens @philipp.hertie.ai · 22/05/2025

This allows to generate high quality counterfactual images for individual patients, e.g. answering the question how an image had looked if the patient had been healthy or if she had been sick. The induced lesions look highly realistic, and the vessel structure is kept intact.

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Philipp Berens @philipp.hertie.ai · 22/05/2025

In our model, we use the gradients of a robust disease classifier and regularization towards the original image to guide the diffusion process

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Philipp Berens @philipp.hertie.ai · 22/05/2025

And another one: We show how to use a diffusion model for #fundus images for #counterfactual reasoning in #ophthalmology! If you ever wondered how the fundus images of your patient had looked, if he had been suffering from diabetic retinopathy, check this out ⬇️ journals.plos.org/digitalhealt...

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Philipp Berens @philipp.hertie.ai · 20/05/2025

Every Coding Lab has a section where they are supposed to report what they used, how and for what. It seems that the reporting works quite well. Send me an email and I can share prelim summary (by LLM of course).

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Philipp Berens @philipp.hertie.ai · 20/05/2025

CELL Press has multi-journal submission. Works actually very well. Papers are reviewed at up to three journals, and you get editorial feedback from each.

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Philipp Berens @philipp.hertie.ai · 19/05/2025

We told the students to use them however they like and just tell us how - very interesting results! Grades are about the same as before…

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Philipp Berens @philipp.hertie.ai · 16/05/2025

And it’s so great they finally put the moose 🫎 front and center as a model animal for retina research! It’s just so handy!

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Philipp Berens @philipp.hertie.ai · 15/05/2025

We had a paper accepted today! In the first round, Rx provided a long, forceful rant why our paper wasn't a big advance, how the figures are poorly done and so on. We pushed back politely and answered the points we thought were reasonable. Today, Rx: "Sorry for my rant, the paper is good." Cudos!

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